Bite Me: Desire and the Female Spectator in Twilight, The Vampire Diaries, and True Blood Pubblico
Thurber, Ann (2011)
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Abstract
In 2008 and 2009 the first Twilight film, the CW network television series The Vampire Diaries, and the cable HBO series True Blood debuted. With these debuts came a flood of obsessive interest-particularly heterosexual female interest-in vampire romance. What does it mean to consume vampire film and television and, in turn, be consumed by it? This thesis explores the connection between female desire and female spectatorship, arguing that the grouping represents a conflicted, yet decided, step toward female reclamation of Freud's infamous question, "What does a woman want?"
Table of Contents
Introduction:
What Does a Woman Want?.................................................................... 1
Chapter One: The New Vampire: Byronic Heroes, Romantic Fantasies, and Female Spectators…… 8
Chapter Two: The Desire to Desire Vampires: Twilight as Neo-Woman's Film…….. 32
Chapter Three: The Vampire and its Double: Doppelgangers, Meta Vampires, and Gender-Bending Byronic Love in The Vampire Diaries ..55
Chapter Four: Coming Out of the Coffin: From Sex and the City to Sex and the Vampire……… 77
Conclusion: Reclaiming or Regressing?...................................................................... 92
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